Only 20 percent of Florida's sophmores on target to be college ready

From the Orlando Sentinel, by leslie Postal

You can file this in the stuff-we-didn’t-have-time-to-report-Friday folder….

For the 10th-grade reading FCAT exam (the one students must pass to earn high school diplomas), the state has set a new benchmark — a score that indicates “readiness for college-level coursework.”

Twenty percent of Florida’s current crop of 10th graders scored at that mark, earning a 262 or better (a mid-level 4 score on the 5-level test) on FCAT reading, the DOE says.

If they enroll in a state college within two years, those students are exempt from taking the PERT, the state’s college placement test.

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